Posted by admin on 30 May 2007 | Tagged as: news
Reuters ran an interesting piece about Pakistan’s popular Bhangra singer Abrar-ul-Haq. The Pakistani High Court has upheld a girl’s request that he remove her name from the lyrics of one of his songs after she complained that male students at her college teased her by singing the song when she passed by. She had been [...]
Posted by admin on 25 May 2007 | Tagged as: news, tip
Smooth, silky, bluesy, smokey: how do you like your jazz? Melanie De Biasio’s debut release was album of the week for Ireland’s Tribune after some shows there. “A Stomach is Burning” is a low-beat acoustic homage to jazz. I haven’t got the lyrics, but I can’t help loving a track where so many of [...]
Posted by admin on 02 May 2007 | Tagged as: meanings, news
I just read that Sting will release the lyrics to Police as a book later in the year. Sounds like a good idea. And perhaps it will put to rest a lot of the speculation about his lyrics. My favourite misunderstanding is “Every Breath You Take“, a song that sounds like it was written by [...]